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    The Power of the Coconut and the Yoruba Religion: (A Manual for the Yoruba Religion)
    The Power of the Coconut and the Yoruba Religion: (A Manual for the Yoruba Religion)
    The Power of the Coconut and the Yoruba Religion: (A Manual for the Yoruba Religion)
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    The Power of the Coconut and the Yoruba Religion: (A Manual for the Yoruba Religion)

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    HISTORY OF THE COCONUT
    Olodumare saw in Obi (coconut), a just and humble person, therefore he placed him high in a
    coconut tree, and made him white inside, and out. He also gave him an immortal soul.
    Elegba who was always a true and trusted servant of Olodumare is also at the service of Obi. That
    is why Elegba knows all the friends of Obi, and Obi knows all the friends for Elegba, the poor, the rich,
    the clean, the dirty, the straight and the crooked.
    One day, Obi had feast for his birthday, and entrusted Elegba to invite all his friends. Elegba seeing
    how pretentious and arrogant Obi had become invited all the beggars, and dirty people of the town.
    When Obi arrived and saw in his house all the beggars and dirty people in his house, he became very
    angry, and asked the beggars who had invited them there. They replied Elegba who had invited them.
    At that Obi shouted, Ah, so it was Elegba who invited you was it, but dirty, and with those rags for
    clothes! Get out of here! He shouted, and with that all the embarrassed guest left, and with them went
    Elegba, Obi soon realized his error, and called Elegba, but Elegba did not listen, and kept walking.
    One day Olodumare asked Elegba to go to the house of Obi. However, Elegba refused and told
    him to send him anywhere else, and we would go right away beside the house of Obi he would not,
    and should not go. Olodumare pretending that he knew nothing of what had transpired, asked Elegba
    what he had against Obi. After hearing Elegba the details of the incident at Obis house, Olodumare
    transformed himself into the disguise of a beggar, and went calling at the door of Obi. When Obi saw
    that who was calling was a beggar, he indignantly said, Take a bath and get dressed before calling at
    my door, can you not see that you are dirty, do you want to dirty my furniture too? and with that, he
    slammed the door in the face of Olodumare. Olodumare took a few steps from Obis house, and then
    with a strong voice called Obi; Obi Meye Emi Ofe which means, Obi see who I am. When Obi was
    seen aware that it was Olodumare who had come calling at his door, he tried to excuse himself, and beg
    forgiveness but Oloduma said to him Obi it is too late, I thought you were natural and unpretentious,
    that is why I placed you high in the coconut tree, making you white inside and out. But having placed
    so high, you have to become vain, and have thrown the beggar from your house. Obi, those are my
    children too.
    I am going to leave you in the coconut tree, so that you may realize that no matter how high you are
    placed, you can never be higher than myself, Oloduma the creator God, or my divine laws. Therefore
    for as long as the earth exists, you will roll on the ground, and be transformed to green and black on
    the outside, but to remain white on the inside for your immortal soul. The black to remind you of the
    offense you made to the beggars and the green for the hope that someday you will be forgiven when
    you come to understand that all persons are my children. Meanwhile, you will predict the good and
    bad, and the death that will occur on earth. And with that began the tradition of reading the Obi at
    the feet of Elegba, and the other Orishas.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 16, 2013
    ISBN9781483699578
    The Power of the Coconut and the Yoruba Religion: (A Manual for the Yoruba Religion)
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    I was born at Morrisania hospital in the Bronx New York. At the age of 13 I began learning martial arts, and became a black belt. My brother Seth Canty had a dance company where they did African dance, and I would heat the drums with sterno to change the tone of the drums. I began learning how to play the drums and other accompanying instruments. I went to William Howard Taft high school where I studied music. I graduated in the year of 1969. After enlisting in the army I returned from Viet Nam in 1973. I started learning more drumming from Richard Landrum, Papiro Allende, and Baba Femi Akinlana. After studying at the Jazz mobile for some years, I decided to come to California to go to college to study dance and music. While working at Rwanda Lewis Dance Company with some great drummers I was introduced to the practice here in California by Akin Dosu Davis. From that time my life has changed to who I am now. I have been practicing various forms of ethnic practices from Africa. Many times, I find that one must find his or her way in this life and the things that make you happy. I learned to speak and translate Spanish on my own and conversate with other Spanish speaking groups. I am Caribbean born in New York but my roots are from West Africa Senegal. While studying this belief system performing with different African companies from Senegal as well as Nigerian, Haitian I feel with my observation for some 34 years of the African belief systems that I can give an insight to the practice and study of the material within.

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      The Power of the Coconut and the Yoruba Religion - family

      Copyright © 2013 by Anthony Canty Efuntade. 136907-CANT

      ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4836-9956-1

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Forward

      History Of The Coconut

      Some Uses Of The Coconut

      How To Throw The Coconut

      To The Orisha

      Meaning Of The Positions Of The Coconuts

      The Orisha

      Origin Of The Yoruba Saints

      How Elegua Was Born

      Prayers To The Orisha Saints

      Elegua (Infant Jesus, St. Anthony, St. Michael)

      Ogun (St. Peter And St. Pablo)

      Ibeji (St. Cosmos, And St. Damian)

      Obatala (Blessed Mother, Also Jesus Christ)

      Osun (Blessed Mother Of Charity)

      Oba (St. Catherine)

      Osun (The Holy Head)

      Babaluaye (St. Lazaro)

      Algayu: (St. Christopher)

      Further Meanings Of The

      Letters From The Orishas

      Oya (St. Theresa)

      Orumila (St. Francis)

      Ejife:

      Okanean (Ok An Asorie)

      Oyeku (Okanayeku)

      Oyeku (Okanayeku)

      Where To Take The Ebo Chure For The Orisha

      Songs To The Orishas

      The Secrets

      So That The People Will Know

      What To Feed The Orisha And

      What Are Their Roads

      Ogun

      Ochosi

      Orisha-Oko

      Inle

      Babaluyaye

      Algayu

      Ebejis

      Obatala

      Shango

      Oba

      Oshun

      Oya

      Dada

      Yewa

      Oduduwa

      Olokun

      Orunmila

      Works You Do With Elegba

      An Oil Lamp To Elegba For Money

      A Lamp To Elegba To Attract A Person

      A Talisman For A Business

      A Talisman To Avoid The Police

      Comparison Of The Yoruba Saints

      With The Catholic- Saints

      The Cooked Addimus For The Orishas Recipes

      Glossary Of Terms Used In This Book

      Works You Do With The Orisha Ogun

      Works You Do With The Orisha Ochosi

      Ebo For Good Luck In Court And With The Law

      A House Cleaning With Coconut

      Spiritual Alters

      INTRODUCTION

      In recent years, there has been a new awakening in the desire for spiritual life, and an alternative to the confusion of today’s world. Many people have turned to the Yoruba religion; therefore we offer this manual to give greater knowledge on which to rely for the imitated, and the unimitated as well. The Yoruba religion has become widespread throughout the western hemisphere as well as its native Africa. The religion flourishes in the Caribbean, and South America where it has been transplanted along with the peoples who followed this religious path, from Africa. This is a very powerful and tremendously in depth philosophy which deals with man, the material, and the spiritual worlds. Giving in insight and understanding of the universe and the destiny of men in it. The many beliefs, based on knowledge of the laws of the universe have been in existence since time immemorial. The belief, for example, in reincarnation is based on knowledge of the laws of the transmutation of the soul, allow for an understanding of the inner self to a very high degree. Western science is only now beginning to delve into the great regions attained by this knowledge, and they are finding that their conclusions are directly in align with those basic truths known for millions of years to the philosophy of the eastern hemisphere. This ancient African religion came to America with the slaves who were brought here from the African continent. The slaves were first in the Caribbean, Haiti, Cuba and Martinique. When Braml, and the other South American countries, and finally to North America. When the slaves who were the first brought to America and practiced their religion, the whites thought they were witchcraft practices. Consequently many Africans were killed because of their beliefs, and practices. At the same time in Cuba the treatment of the slaves was much different. They were allowed to practice their religion for many years, before there was an aggressive attempt to convert them, and the Africans were introduced to the Catholic beliefs of the Christian faith. The Spanish priests worked hard to convert the slaves and were fairly successful in getting many of them to adopt some of the Catholic beliefs. In this way, the Spanish priests would question the slaves about their religion, finding out much about the histories of the Yoruba Gods. That is why the histories of the Catholic Saints, and the Yoruba Gods are practically the same it is believed. The secrets of the religion were passed on from father to son, and this way it has been kept intact until this time.

      When Fidel Castro gained control of Cuba, many of the Yoruba priests who no longer desired to live in Cuba, came to the United States. Most of them went to New York. This is the first city in the United States in which a person was initiated into the Yoruba religion. The second initiation took place in New Jersey, then Miami, Chicago, and Los Angeles. These are today the centers of this powerful religion in the United States.

      We are trying to help spread this religion to all fifty states. Therefore we introduce in this book the first thing used in the Yoruba religion, the coconut. THE POWER OF THE COCONUT IN THE YORUBA RELIGION will help you to better understand the oracle of the Obi (coconut) which is used to speak with the Orisha and spirits of the religion; and will show you what power the coconut has in the spiritual world.

      This book has been reintroduced by Anthony Canty Efuntade. And Family who worked on making this book legible again.

      I give thanks to my family Naomi, Nene, for their help in working on this book, Anthony, Sao, and my wife Lupe for help and love with this project.

      FORWARD

      Some forty years ago, history as it was known, dealt mostly with the facts, and data especially pertaining to the Europeans. This was almost the extent of his-story available to the American people. This study of their so-called advanced civilization, the refinement of their thinking, their religions beliefs, mannerisms, and tastes, truly was his story, based mainly on the fables on many rumors of the dark and middle ages.

      Himself the only civilized creature on the planet, he clamored for his ideals to rule the world by any means available which resulted in the destruction of many nations, cultures, and peoples. He is now coming to realize what he thought was cultural, and technological advancement, is actually the opposite sense of reality of existence on this earth.

      The mechanized society, based on empirical knowledge, and gathered by imperfect means; without factually understanding the laws of material, and spiritual existence on this planet has so severely imbalanced the earth, that we are all face with the direst of circumstances. The degree to which they have encroached on the lands and peoples of other races has resulted in the almost constant conflict between the peoples of the earth, as they die for the lands of others which contain the necessary raw materials needed to maintain their advanced civilization, and lifestyle. The conflagrations they have started have resulted already in two wars which involved the entire planet, and there is presently the threat of molear holocaust at any moment.

      Presently, their confusing and often conflicting philosophies which seem to change every few years can no longer support them. Their philosophies based on the partial knowledge retained from other peoples’ ancient doctrines, are failing then at present and their young turn form them in search of the origin of knowledge, and existence on this planet.

      Their scientists are now acknowledging the facts of the origins of man on the African continent. With their discovery of the Oldulva Gorge mans’ fossilized remains, they can no longer delude themselves, or others about the origins of life and knowledge it Being undoubtedly the African continent. It should be known, and acknowledged that it is here that their so called Great Thinkers were taught, and trained in the mysteries of life, the secrets of nature, and the philosophies and laws which actually govern the universe. Therefore, if you want true knowledge, you must go to where the beginning is to seek it out. The many movements for economic, social, or political improvement do not benefit anyone because they are not aimed at the real problems of the people; which stems from a lack of our ancestral spirituality.

      The spiritual needs and goals of the third world peoples are very different that is why so many have such hard times existing in present society. It is very difficult to live in a society which advocates aggression, treachery, deceit, greed and unbridled lust, when you are by nature inclined towards a gentler lifestyle, being more contemplative and less aggressive in your sociological views. Having such drastically different characteristics, naturally the way in which we view our surroundings is affected. Similarly, the manner in which we approach and worship the supreme living entity is also affected.

      The ancestral Gods of the African peoples have always been invoked by agile dancing and melodious songs and through the spiritual process of hearing and repeating, to replying. This hearing and repeating, or singing worship opens the doors between the Orisha, or demi-gods, and ourselves and by our worship of the various Orishas, everything si provided for our lives. The necessary food to sustain our bodies, thanks to the worship of the Orisha-Oko. The knowledge of the purpose of our lives thanks to the worship of Ifa. This worship has been carried on for millennia before the advent of the western philosophies, and religions. Direct contact with the Orisha by a bonafide initiate of the

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